Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent)

Of course I withdraw the word "lie", but it is not true and it is not fair. The Minister referred to his own constituency colleague, Deputy Ross, who had nothing to do with it and that is very unfair or very inaccurate. He should correct the record of the House in that regard. We all support it. I tried to explain why we wanted to raise it because we were out of time on other issues. I had a matter to raise this morning, as had Deputy Healy Rae and others. The Minister is not telling the truth, he is not being truthful.

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